Leersia

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Leersia

• Description

  Description - Spikelets awnless, the glumes wanting, otherwise as in Oryza, the plants and spikelets much smaller. Under the provisions of the Type-basis Code Homalocenchrus is not effectively published.